Rita is angry. You might be angry, too, if you died every day. I’m pretty sure she’d be angry anyway, however. But it’s hard to tell because Rita (voice of Ai Mikami) does indeed get killed every day … by really aggressive alien flowers. How aggressive? Rita has been resurrected over 100 times. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Not long ago, some alien plant came to Earth and spread it tentacles all over (like ALL OVER). Like partially blotting out the sky all over … although that part might have been fantasy or foreshadowing; I’m not sure which. Somewhere at ground zero, a team of soldier horticulturists decided to attack the thing. Today, the plant fought back. And it’s winning.
Our hero is Rita, a lanky young woman with bright green eyes and a parade of orange hair. She looks like someone asked Aaron McGruder (“The Boondocks”) to draw Aeon Flux. She wakes up every morning to an alarm and eventually gets killed by plant life. Half her days are spent figuring out how to combat a handful of aggressive human killers, and eventually she’ll have to take on the whole bouquet. Part of the problem -as I understand it- is that the plant learns from its mistakes, adjusts, and resets the day (i.e.it resets and remembers, too); Rita has somehow become tied to the plant, hence, she restarts as well.
Good for her.
Won’t the big lethal and omnipresent alien plant always have an advantage over one li’l human? Well, gosh, you’d sure think so, but this is a movie, so I’m guessing … no?
Say, Is All 
You Need Is Kill a Beatles B-side?
And, gee, all I need to kill a plant is just leaving it with me for a week or two; that’ll do it.
All You Need Is Kill is a remake of Edge of Tomorrow, which will make you say: “Wait, I’ve seen this before” more than once. I’m pretty sure this version is closer to the original material than Edge of Tomorrow … and there’s the problem. While this animated remake was a truer vision; this vision was heavily flawed by a perpetually angry protagonist and an incomprehensible plot. How are we getting rid of the giant lethal flower children again? And are they really here to take over or to turn on, tune in, and drop out? Whatever the case, I’d love to show this film with Edge of tomorrow to various audiences and see which we prefer. My guess is that even anime fans would choose the Tom Cruise version, but I could be wrong.
There once was a woman named Rita
A modern animated Lolita
Her every-day dance
Involved killing plants
Vegans: You really don’t want to meet-a
Rated R, 86 Minutes
Director: Ken’ichirô Akimoto, Yukinori Nakamura
Writer: Yûichirô Kido, Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Genre: Ground-forces Day
Type of being most likely to enjoy this film: Fans of the book
Type of being least likely to enjoy this film: “Edge of Tomorrow was better”
